Protocol Action: 'Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/ MIME) Version 4.0 Certificate Handling' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5750-bis-08.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Thu, 01 November 2018 00:45 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/ MIME) Version 4.0 Certificate Handling' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5750-bis-08.txt)
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:45:01 -0700
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/ MIME) Version 4.0
   Certificate Handling'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5750-bis-08.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Benjamin Kaduk and Eric Rescorla.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5750-bis/




  Technical Summary:

    This document specifies the certificate handling for S/MIME 4.0.
    The changes since S/MIME 3.2 include required support for EAI
    (internationalized email addresses), increased RSA key sizes,
    moving old one-way hash functions to historic status, and
    requiring support for ECDSA with P-256 and Ed25519.

  Working Group Summary:

    There is strong consensus for this document in the LAMPS WG.

  Document Quality:

    S/MIME has wide support, and several implementers have said that
    they will implement the new features in this document.

  Personnel:

    Russ Housley is the document shepherd.
    Eric Rescorla is the responsible area director.

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